Last night we got her home about 9pm, and she went for a wee on the puppy mat thing. Last night she also needed one, while I was asleep, and went on the mat. This despite the fact she's not house trained. Today she's shat on the rug twice and peed in 4 places, and seems utterly perplexed at us moving her. I guess either yesterday was luck or she's trying to push her boundaries already? Doesn't help that with the snow she's really not keen on outside right now! She is only 8 weeks, I should give her some leeway, but I'm also very aware it's much harder to train it back out later.
A friend trains dogs, she says the pads are actually a bad idea as it normalises going to the toilet in the house. It saves the floor now but it'll take much longer to get her off them, and to take her outside every half hour and praise her loads when she goes. She takes one look at the snow and tries to get back to the radiator though!